This is written in response to Poetry Thursday: the prompt is red. This is the first time I have officially responded to the prompts, so here goes.
'Stains'
I see them... I see it...
Such a small, unassuming space...
to unleash a thousand kinds of hell.
So many places, why this?
when so many others might do.
So many deaths in a callous instant...
for nothing more than a... word.
I shout to them... I yell...
Such a shattered, terrible milieu...
as the madness consumes it all.
So many lost, for what?
when so many others should do.
So many histories fragmented in fury...
for nothing save we asked them to.
I reach...
Such a quiet, calm sound...
to end the horrors of the day.
So many forgotten, and now?
when no one else could do.
So much I needed to say...
for the stains shall never fade.
C.
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'I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself now and then by finding a smoother stone or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered.' -- Sir Isaac Newton
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- I have been back from the wilds of New Zealand for awhile and I continue to offer what I can to this life in the way of words, though not as frequently as I would like. I do as must, regardless.
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6 comments:
I think you definitely made the prompt work. very nice... and sad and powerful and intense
I think you definitely made the prompt work. very nice... and sad and powerful and intense
I admire anyone that can make writing prompts work. I've never been good at that, though I did try it once with a story.
rav'n: thanks, and I did want to do something a little different with it. Funny, after reading your post and typing out my comment, I realised I had an idea... strange how that stuff happens.
mistress: It usually doesn't work for me. I have to be in the right mood I guess. But sometimes, it is good practice to do these things. On the other hand, if the work doesn't meet my standards, then I wont' do the prompt :)
I like this one a lot Chris.
Thank you :)
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